Combining an ancient method of clayworking with state-of-the-art electronics (circa 1977), this unique museum presents the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita through narration, movement, and visual effects.

Join Atlas Obscura for an exclusive tour of the Bhagavad-gita Museum, located at the International Society for Krishna Consciousness of Los Angeles. Guided by the museum's new director, Radha-Krishna das, we'll explore the temple, the museum, and learn more about the history of this hidden cultural treasure. Afterwards join us next door for lunch at Govinda's "karma-free vegan and vegetarian dining" (lunch not included in ticket price).

Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the Bhagavad-gita: “In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-gétä, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.”

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